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UCLA Basketball Is Hitting New Lows Under Steve Alford

Could UCLA men’s head basketball coach Steve Alford be fired mid-season?

The Bruin’s basketball team is—at 9-4 with two-straight bad losses—in real danger of falling into a potentially historic nose dive and its unpopular head coach is blaming the players he recruited for the abysmal play.

After a nearly 30-point loss on the road to an unranked Cincinnati Bearcats team, Steve Alford suggested last night to the Los Angeles Times’ Ben Bolch that players not getting into the gym on their off days was the reason his team was annihilated in front of a national television audience.